Coaldale Copperheads 11, Rocky Rams 3
The Coaldale Copperheads piled up 11 goals on 56 shots in an 11-3 blowout of the Rocky Rams at Coaldale Sportsplex on Saturday, with Kobe Fujita factoring in on three of the Copperheads’ goals.
Rocky actually struck first, with Brent Coleman opening the scoring at 3:44 and Riley Roberts adding another at 9:24 to put the Rams up 2-0. But Coaldale answered with a power-play goal from Lincoln Weiss at 13:19 to cut the deficit to 2-1 after 20 minutes, despite holding a lopsided 14-6 edge in shots over the frame.
The Copperheads took over in the second, scoring five times. Kobe Fujita opened the flood at 5:15, Barrett Van Nistelrooy put Coaldale ahead for good at 5:35 for the eventual game-winner, Brett Hudey added insurance at 10:26, Jaxon Schiever briefly answered for Rocky at 13:28, and Coaldale closed the period with goals from Cohen Richardson (14:33) and Fujita again (19:05) to take a commanding 7-3 lead into the third.
Coaldale added four more in the third — Eric Price, Chase Stronge, and a second goal from Riley Roberts for Rocky sandwiched in between, followed by Madyx Skrypnyk and Paul Vanden Elzen — to round out the 11-3 final. Rocky made a goaltending change midway through the third period, with Jett Wagner relieving Maddyn McCrindle at the 7:00 mark after McCrindle had stopped 38 of 47 shots.
Coaldale’s Cole Lavorato made 22 saves on 25 shots for the win.